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This show has been commercially released as " Europe '72: The Complete Recordings - All The Music Edition"
Reviewer:
lickmyballs -
Subject:
what do you think?
Good blow or fast tape. Either way it rocks.
Reviewer:
Shooting Dark Star -
Subject:
Overrated?
Just have to laugh at the last review, this show smokes from start to finish. Amazing music, amazing quality recording. Europe '72 is the best run of music the band ever made. Do not miss a single show.
Reviewer:
rschwz28 -
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overrated
Want to hear a better Bertha, Mr. Charlie, Jack Straw, Tennessee Jed, Big Boss Man, Casey Jones, Truckin', and Ramble On Rose? Go to December 5, 1971. Want to hear a better Black Throated Wind, Playing In The Band and Greatest Story Ever Told? Listen to Ace.
Reviewer:
Cliff Hucker -
Subject:
"the cocaine was far too good"
"Amsterdam, where the Concertgebouw was a jewel of a theater, the cocaine was far too good..." Dennis McNally
Perhaps overshadowed by the monumental performances preceeding and following it, this treasure might be the most overlooked gem of the Europe '72 tour. This vastly underrated show is extremely well played from start to finish. Virtually every song is a standout performance. The sound quality is superb and the mix lively. The separation is excellent making it easy to hear the fine mucisianship of both Keith and Bobby.
While the highlights include a terrific Bertha opener, an intense and very psychedelic Playin' in the Band, an excellent rendition of Truckin' and what is possibly the best early performance of He's Gone, the centerpiece of the show is another jazzy and extraordinarily jammed out Other One. This one is as fine as the performances of the song in Frankfurt and Paris. It's highly exploratory, visiting numerous themes over its more than 35 minutes.
Erupting out of Drums, from the opening notes this performance of The Other One percolates like a pot of fine Blue Mountain. Extremely jazzy in nature, there are several extraordinary movements. A particularly brilliant passage starts at 4:45, after the jam slows down it gets real smokey with an almost Clementine type theme. Close your eyes and you can imagine being in a jazz club. Ten minutes in, the Other One theme emerges again. After the first verse, it gets spacey, eventually going atonal with some wild notes from Phil before another spectacular jazz segment commences at 20:00. Over the next fourteen minutes, this amazing music covers a ton of ground, never losing momentum. Several times the Other One theme re-emerges but somehow the band avoids the second verse. Instead Phil and Bobby initiate an amazing Dylanesque passage at 32:00. Garcia's playing becomes highly emotive, the music is both haunting and sublime. It's one of the most amazing pieces of music on the entire tour. As if the theme has reached its zenith, with nowhere left to go, they segue into Bobby McGee, before finally completing the journey into the reprise and second verse conclusion to what might be the finest performance of The Other One on the tour.
Amazingly, there is another full hour of music left in the set including fantastic performances of Wharf Rat, Sugar Magnolia and a dynamite show closing NFA> GDTRFB> NFA. (98 pts)
Reviewer:
BIG_R -
Subject:
5-10-72
Wonderful show. Very nice sound quality. You can here a little tape sound in the quieter moments but not much.
Reviewer:
rohanj -
Subject:
The Other One
I agree due to its close position to 11May and the overall consistency of the entire tour, this show is lesser known but worthy of all-star status. The Other One swings and knifes its way in and out of various emotions, an all-time best version. The energy in this version reminds of 6Aug.71 > primal!
Reviewer:
oh_uh_um_ah -
Subject:
A magical night with the GRATEFUL DEAD
The recording quality is not as good as May 04, 1972(Olympia Theater, Paris, France). Who cares?
Is the tape a tiny bit fast? Sounds like it to me,
especially after listening to the afforementioned show. Who cares?
With that said, the GRATEFUL DEAD come on hotter than Death Valley in the summertime...and they don't let up.
This is a hard show to beat. You will be searching the IA a long time looking for a better show than this. 5 songs by Pigpen is always a treat.
The boys were firing on all cylinders this night.
An audio "DUTCH MASTERPIECE" performed live in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Why weren't we there?
5 star performances
5 star mix
4 star recording
This show deserves 5 stars regardless of what might or might not be wrong with it.
Get it while you can, get it while it's free, get it now or you'll be sorry.
Eat, drink, be merry and listen to the GRATEFUL DEAD.
Thanks for the love.
Reviewer:
geolectro -
Subject:
Thanks
For putting this back up....
Reviewer:
My Uncle and I -
Subject:
holy moly
can't say enough about this show's "Other One"
This is the show that MADE ME write a review...
enjoy all.....
Reviewer:
samson -
Subject:
Wow!
I got this one back in the summer and it completely blew me away. It is one of those shows that will leave you speechless for months to come! I still don't know what to say about this one...The Other One...WOW! Best of the tour and probably in the top three of best version ever. Definately grab this one up folks- it will keep you warm through out the winter. (and don't forget the next night, it gets even better!)
Reviewer:
darkstarpat -
Subject:
Other One
Excellent Truckin' leads into an absolutely amazingly powerful Other One. Takes you all over the map. Poweful jamming into some mellow, smooth melodic noodling into a beautiful Me and Bobby McGee, fading back into Other One, finally fading into an always amazing Wharf Rat.
Reviewer:
sheikyerbouti -
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What a colossul show
Agree with the others that this is often overshadowed by Rotterdam and this may be in fact be the best other one from the tour sugar mag, nfa the whole thing is so power packed and listenable - enjoy.
Reviewer:
dr. flashback -
Subject:
smokin in Amsterdam!
There's absolutely nothing wrong with this show - except that it's followed by a masterpiece on 5/11, and so has had to live in its shadow, unrecognized by many. Hot versions of Bertha, Loser and Mr. Charlie. And the He's Gone appears on Euro 72 - it's THE He's Gone folks! But the Other One is just fireworks from beginning to end. This one will curl your hair, steal your face and get you kind. Along with "Hundred Year Hall" 4/26, one of the best Other Ones from the tour. A great sounding SBD. If you like 5/11, you MUST have this show. Some of the Euro shows from April have cuts and missing songs. Get this one first,you won't be sorry! Nuff said.
Dr. Flashback ;-)
Reviewer:
TERRAPINCANE -
Subject:
classic
this show and the following night are among the two best shows this band ever played....
every single song is played perfectly, with the ultimate highlight being the Other One...amazing jamming, amazing Phil, and an amazing show...
consider 5/10 and 5/11 to be DP-worthy performances, and enjoy every last minute of these monsters...
if there was a rating beyond 5, both these shows would get it.
Reviewer:
candymanan -
Subject:
Amsterdam
The Dead seem to do something special when they play in the Netherlands and this show comlplies. Not just a great setlist and performance, but great sound quality in all formats...Lossless rules - Lo-Fi saves (you decide). Either way, download this one and you'll be happy :-)